OCCLUSION TRAINING

Training occlusion, or what scientists call “training restriction of blood flow” implies restrict blood flow in the veins of the muscle that will work to make gains in size and strength. It sounds crazy, but there is much more behind this.

In a sport such as bodybuilding, where most of our time dedicated to finding the best way to increase blood flow, blocking this sounds ridiculous or meaningless. How could this be beneficial? The short answer is you should not completely restrict the blood. That’s important to remember and may take you a while to understand…

How Occlusion training work?

Occlusion training involves wrapping a band such as those typically used for the knee near the top of a limb at a pressure sufficient to occlude or obstruct blood flow to the veins, but not arteries. Thus, the arteries supplying blood to continue the climb and so it makes the blood pool in the limb because the veins have trouble carrying blood back to the heart. (This does not have to sound worrying, then when we quit the band end, our blood flow is normalized)

During this training, muscle cells reach a point where they are so full of liquid that must burst or grow.Oral steroid pills for beginners are a good solution here and can get you where you want to be.

The low level of oxygen in the muscle during the accumulation of blood forces the body to recruit fibers larger fast twitch, resulting in an extreme growth.

Finally, when oxygen is low, lactic acid builds up quickly.

Recent studies and how to use it in training

Recently, Dr. Thiebaud conducted a study on the best contraction that can be obtained with occlusion training. He compared the concentric portion of an exercise (lifting) to the eccentric portion (down). It has always been known that the eccentric portion when lifting weights is the greatest impact ago when muscle growth, but the opposite was found with occlusion training! The concentric part, I mean elevation is more important. This suggests that we should focus on the rise in each repetition, knowing that the goal is to flood the muscle with liquid and lactate. (This will give us congestion and an impressive muscular pumping)

The problem, as you might expect, is that many lifters do not know well how to wrap a limb to restrict the veins and not the arteries. This is not good. But the study addressed the issue directly and found a simple to make sure you’re on the right track approach.

Wrap the band at a pressure perceive as a 7 on a scale of 10 in the legs, and 5-6 in the arms, so occludes veins reliable, but not the arteries. This is the strongest you have to go to so they do not clog arteries.

It is essential that you put bands directly from a circular shape, such as the narrowest part of the upper arm. Wrap in a wider area threatens to occlude the arteries.